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Love Lessons - Selected Poems Of Alda Merini

by Alda Merini

26,50€ + 10% CARD

 Alda Merini is one of Italy's most important, and most beloved, living poets. She has won many of the major national literary prizes and has twice been nominated for the Nobel Prize--by the French Academy in 1996 and by Italian PEN in 2001. In Love Lessons, the distinguished American poet Susan Stewart brings us the largest and most comprehensive s
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Hothouses - Poems, 1889

by Maurice Maeterlinck

33,13€ + 10% CARD

 Reflects the influence not only of French poets including Verlaine and Rimbaud, but also of Whitman. This title presents the poems, whose English translations appear opposite the French originals, which are accompanied by reproductions of seven woodcuts by Georges Minne that appeared in the original volume.
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Horace, The Odes - New Translations By Contemporary Poets

by Horace

39,75€ + 10% CARD

 The odes of Horace are the cornerstone of lyric poetry in the Western world. This work aims to bring all 103 odes into English in a series of translations while also illuminating the imagination of one of literary history's towering figures.
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The Night

by Jaime Saenz

39,75€ + 10% CARD

 Jaime Saenz is arguably the greatest Bolivian writer of the twentieth century. His poetry is apocalyptic, transcendent, hallucinatory, and brilliant. This title offers a translation of Saenz's work, "The Night", in English, which is the last he wrote before his death in 1986.
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Love Lessons - Selected Poems Of Alda Merini

by Alda Merini

27,04€ + 10% CARD

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 Alda Merini is one of Italy's most important, and most beloved, living poets. She has won many of the major national literary prizes and has twice been nominated for the Nobel Prize--by the French Academy in 1996 and by Italian PEN in 2001. In Love Lessons, the distinguished American poet Susan Stewart brings us the largest and most comprehensive s
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After Every War - Twentieth-Century Women Poets

26,50€ + 10% CARD

 Provides the poets' personal glimpses into the effects of war on language, place, poetry, and womanhood. This book features translations of women poets living in Europe in the decades before and after World War II who chart the sheer ordinariness through which cataclysm is experienced, and by which life is cruelly shattered.
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Angina Days - Selected Poems

by Gunter Eich

26,50€ + 10% CARD

 Gunter Eich was one of the greatest postwar German poets. This title offers a collection of Eich's eighty poems, in which the ominousness of fairy tales meets the delicacy and suggestiveness of Far Eastern poetry.
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New Impressions Of Africa

by Raymond Roussel

23,84€ + 10% CARD

 This bilingual edition of New Impressions of Africa presents the original French text and the English poet Mark Ford's lucid, idiomatic translation on facing pages. It also includes an introduction outlining the poem's peculiar structure and evolution.
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Oranges And Snow - Selected Poems Of Milan Djordjevic

by Milan Djordjevic

21,19€ + 10% CARD

 Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic has done more than anyone since Czeslaw Milosz to introduce English-language readers to the greatest modern Slavic poets. In Oranges and Snow, Simic continues this work with his translations of one of today's finest Serbian poets, Milan Djordjevic. An encounter between two poets and two languages, this bili
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Angina Days - Selected Poems

by Gunter Eich

27,04€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 Gunter Eich was one of the greatest postwar German poets. This title offers a collection of Eich's eighty poems, in which the ominousness of fairy tales meets the delicacy and suggestiveness of Far Eastern poetry.
ENGLISH

Horace, The Odes - New Translations By Contemporary Poets

by Horace

40,56€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 The odes of Horace are the cornerstone of lyric poetry in the Western world. This work aims to bring all 103 odes into English in a series of translations while also illuminating the imagination of one of literary history's towering figures.
ENGLISH

The Night - A Poem By Jaime Saenz

by Jaime Saenz

40,56€ + 10% CARD

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 Jaime Saenz is arguably the greatest Bolivian writer of the twentieth century. His poetry is apocalyptic, transcendent, hallucinatory, and brilliant. This title offers a translation of Saenz's work, "The Night", in English, which is the last he wrote before his death in 1986.
ENGLISH

Oranges And Snow - Selected Poems Of Milan Djordjevic

by Milan Djordjevic

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 Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic has done more than anyone since Czeslaw Milosz to introduce English-language readers to the greatest modern Slavic poets. In Oranges and Snow, Simic continues this work with his translations of one of today's finest Serbian poets, Milan Djordjevic. An encounter between two poets and two languages, this bili
ENGLISH

New Impressions Of Africa

by Raymond Roussel

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 This bilingual edition of New Impressions of Africa presents the original French text and the English poet Mark Ford's lucid, idiomatic translation on facing pages. It also includes an introduction outlining the poem's peculiar structure and evolution.
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The Whole Duty Of A Woman: Or, An Infallible Guide To The Fair Sex. Containing, Rules, Directions, And Observations, For Their Conduct And Behaviour T - Or, An Infallible Guide To The Fair Sex. Containing, Rules, Directions, And Observations, For Their Conduct And Behaviour Through All Ages And Circums

by See Notes Multiple Contributors

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Genesis - The Evolution Of Biology

by Jan Sapp

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 What is evolution? What is a gene? How did these concepts originate and how did they develop? This book is a short history ranging from Lamarck and Darwin to DNA and the Human Genome Project, exploring the conceptual oppositions, techniques, institutional conditions and controversies that have shaped the development of biology.
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Oranges And Snow - Selected Poems Of Milan Djordjevic

by Milan Djordjevic

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 Milan Djordjevic is one of finest Serbian poets. Djordjevic, who was born in Belgrade in 1954, is a poet who gives equal weight to imagination and reality. This title features some forty-five of Djordjevic's best poems and provides an introduction discussing the poet's work, as well as the challenges of translation.
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After Every War - Twentieth-Century Women Poets

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 Provides the poets' personal glimpses into the effects of war on language, place, poetry, and womanhood. This book features translations of women poets living in Europe in the decades before and after World War II who chart the sheer ordinariness through which cataclysm is experienced, and by which life is cruelly shattered.
ENGLISH

Hothouses - Poems, 1889

by Maurice Maeterlinck

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 Reflects the influence not only of French poets including Verlaine and Rimbaud, but also of Whitman. This title presents the poems, whose English translations appear opposite the French originals, which are accompanied by reproductions of seven woodcuts by Georges Minne that appeared in the original volume.
ENGLISH

Landscape With Rowers - Poetry From The Netherlands

by J.M. Coetzee

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 Featuring English translations side-by-side with the originals, this volume contains the work of six of the most important modern and contemporary Dutch poets. Ranging in style from the rhetorical to the intensely lyrical, the work here includes examples of myth-influenced modernist verse, nature poetry, experimental poetry, and more.

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